When creating our website, the look and structure of our websites are always one of our priorities. But after setting it up, we many times forget about it. Many of us feel the moment our website designer or consultant puts it in place, then that is the end.

We do not worry about it, but it is a concern for new website users and search engines. Thus, your website structure affects SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

A lot had happened after your first setup. You must have created and deleted post on several occasion. Not just articles, you could have created links and deleted articles been linked up unknowingly. All these activities contribute to both user experience and accessibility of your website to search engine bots.

In this training, I will not be referring to site structure in terms of design and layout. I will be referring to the organization of both your post and pages. The same way your content plays a large role in search engine optimization so does your site structure. Internal links, headings, categories and tags, and your site maps all affect your website search engine optimization.

We must begin to see how they directly or indirectly affect our results.



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Meenaf1 Premium Plus
Thank you very much for sharing, Ayudeji! Very useful information.
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I appreciate the time taken to see the Meena. Thank you for checking bye

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Meenaf1 Premium Plus
You're most welcome!
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DMelB Premium
Thanks for the training post.
I haven't covered it all yet, but so far it's very useful.
Thank you.
Melanie
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You welcome Melanie, I believe you will find it all useful when you cover the rest.

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richardgb Premium
Hi Parameter
I have recently heard about the concept of a hierarchical website structure. I could guess at what this means and wondered if you are able to explain what it means?
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Richard
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Yes Richard, Websites with lots of content use the Hierarchical model. The use it to form a tree-like structure for your website structure.
So doing content are created and appropriately linked, making website content easily accessible.

There are other forms of website structure like the sequential and the matrix model. But the most important thing for us is raising quality content and linking them in order of relevance via keywords.
Ayodeji
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richardgb Premium
Hi Ayodeji
Are the links clickable links within a post or a menu structure setup?
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Richard
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Parameter Premium
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yes they are clickable links and many times within post. Links in your headers, footers also do contribute

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richardgb Premium
Thank you Ayodoji. Info very much appreciated.
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Richard
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Jenny28 Premium
Great training, important tips to implement.
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Thank you Jenny, our website structure affects our user experience and invariably impacts greatly on our SEO results.

As such, it is important we take it as a core part of our business

Ayodeji
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baughsten Premium Plus
Very useful content. Makes perfect sense. Thanks for posting.
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Thank you Dan.

I am glad you found it useful.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Ayodeji
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